Vangelis's celebrated soundtrack to Ridley Scott's epic recounting of the voyage to America in 1492 by Christopher Columbus, ...

A DNA analysis on mysterious bones has revealed they belonged to Christopher Columbus who died more than 5-00 years ago.

During his second journey to the Caribbean, historian Edward T. Stone wrote in a 1975 essay for American Heritage, Columbus captured a large number of indigenous men, women, and children, sending ...

The ship was part of the 1939 Harvard Columbus Expedition, a five-month voyage across the Atlantic. On board were a hodgepodge of academics, sailors, Harvard affiliates, and their wives.

There are no less than 60 cities, towns, and counties named after Christopher Columbus in the United States, not the least of which is our nation’s capital, the District of Columbia and, somewha ...

Christopher Columbus was a man with a Catholic faith that embraced eternity, ... Columbus brought with him five missionaries, out of roughly 1,000 men, during his Second Voyage (1493-96).

We have celebrated Columbus Day as a national holiday since the 1940s. We’ve seen Italian-Americans and other immigrant groups embrace Columbus as the first immigrant to the New World.

The 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe, Spanish scientists said on Saturday, after using DNA analysis to tackle a centuries-old mystery.

After retracing part of Columbus’ first return voyage to Lisbon, they will set sail across the Atlantic from Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Spain, following his third voyage as far as Trinidad, then go ...

SEVILLE, Spain — Conventional history states Christopher Columbus was from Genoa, Italy, but he may have been, in fact, a Sephardic Jew from the eastern Iberian Peninsula, according to a new ...